Starting Out

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1. Download R (http://cran.r-project.org/)

2. Download MikTeX (http://miktex.org/, windows), MacTeX (http://tug.org/mactex/, mac), check out here if you're on Linux (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LaTeX)

2a.  Download texmaker (http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/)

2b.  Look at http://www.latextemplates.com/

Starting out for imaging:

1. Download FSL (http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslwiki/) 

2. Download MIPAV (http://mipav.cit.nih.gov/)

3. Look at http://smart-stats.org/wiki/readingdatar

Packages for functional data analysis:

1. refund

2. lars - for the LASSO (or glmnet)